While I wait for my class to show up in an hour, I thought I'd make a fast mention about the campaigns in the game.
There are 3 campaigns. Two of them are using the "-in one" concept. In other words, they aren't really campaigns at all, but are instead single battles where each side gets a few choices for their initial deployment. They are Kolin and Torgau.
So, for instance, at Torgau, Frederick did a wide flank march around the Austrian position, leaving a pinning force S of the Austrians, while the main army swung all the way around and attacked from the north. (Eventually, Frederick's N attack was beaten back, but the pinning force launched a late afternoon attack which won the battle for the Prussians.) In this campaign, the Prussians get 3 options
1) Concentrate South- No flank march, hit hard from the south
2) Concentrate North- No pinning force, everyone moves to the north
3) Split force (historical). The historical plan.
Then, the Austrians also get a few options, which dictates where their reserves are.
Kolin works much the same way, with the Prussians having the opportunity to attack from the W, NW or NE (historical).
Then, the main campaign is the Fall 1757, which brings together Hastenbeck, Gross-Jaegersdorf, Rossbach, Breslau and Leuthen.
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